GPS tool, such as Garmin Topo Maps is believed to be an accurate navigational tool, whether you are travelling by sea, land, or air. With this tool, you can keep a track of your journey by pressing a button. Also, it is the case that GPS maps come with a number of features such as the highway page, the navigation page including compass, the north reference, the location, and the Map page, among others. The electronic page, which looks similar to a paper map, would be loaded into the Map page. In addition, this electronic map zooms in and zooms out by positioning the panning arrow. This allows more readability for the map items to the user. Further, area for viewing is adjustable enough to have a good view of the map to the user. Besides that, such maps may be integrated with base map to get a general view of the location.

Operational Features of GPS Software

Apart from this, the navigation page with compass, in addition to the highway page, comes handy to keep a track on distance, speed, time, and positioning information. Moreover, even when you are in a stationary position, the information on direction can be availed with electronic compass on GPS maps. Also, the options for the Heading Display and North Reference are available under the head navigation settings. This option comes handy to make a choice of navigation element. Moreover, magnetic declination of the user’s current position can be easily determined since the GPS mapping software would make an automatic calculation of it.